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Both in Cohero Magazine, as well as in the Weser-Kurier you will find nice articles about The Lilac Girl. Have fun while reading!

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Feelings cannot always be expressed in words. Some make their inner world visible through music or dance. Tamara, the protagonist, expresses her feelings through her images. There is great sadness in Tamara for her childhood home in Jaffa, where she discovered her talent for painting as a child and from which she was evicted with her family 70 years ago. In her imagination she paints the house and visits it at night. The girl who now lives there refuses her entry. While Tamara draws the house, colorful tears run down her cheeks and the colors of the house follow her. Only Lila remains over the city of Jaffa.

The Palestinian-American author tells of flight, expulsion and sadness in a way that is easy for small children to understand, but also poetically about the power and language of colors. Even the German writing of the bilingual book adapts to the coloring of S. Hallak's pictures. He skilfully uses colors as a medium, they flow directly from the images into the heart of the viewer and an understanding beyond language arises.